Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-12-10
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
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30th with imposing ceremonies.
Six stock farms and twenty dairy farms In
this state are owned by women.
Natural gas has been discovered Titnin
seven or eight miles Of Des Moines.
The new Hendricks house at Columbus
Junction will soon be opened to the public.
The agricultural implement houses OF
Brabbitt Bros, and Granger & Mitchell, al
Fort Dodge, were totally destroyed ny hre
Thursday morning, entailing a loss o, VS.
OOO. Covered by an insurance OF $l2,00O.
j.. B. Dixon, Of Maple Grove, has in his pos
session a copy Of : o .ney HymIe," edited by
Rev. John Newton, OF London. The book
WAS published In Phildelphia In III, AID has
been In the Dxon family over one hundred
years.
a novel entertainment under the name OF Il
tsbaby conyentionn was held under the
auspices of the Baptist church at Dabuqle
last week. None over three years OF age
were admitted, and honors OF some kind were
conferred upon the most popular, prettiest
aud the latest.
The Dubuque, Kansas City and Fort Smith
Rail Say company, with = capital OF $1,000,
600: the Oskalooss Coal Mining company,
with a capital OF Sl00,0C0, and the Merchants
aud Manufacturers Mutual Insurance asso-
citation. of Clinton, filed articles and were in
corporated under the laws Of the state last
Wednesday.
Miss Estella Bennett, aged about nineteen
years, daughter Of widow Silvia Bennett, OF
Manson, died suddenly Of quincy Wednesday.
The young LADY was Il prominent member OF
the Woman,s Relief corps OF that place,
esteemed and beloved by all who knew her.
The bereaved mother, sister and brother have
the sympathy Of all.
A Mr.. Edwards, living about seven miles
north Of Manson, met with a serious accident
Thursday morning. In some way he slipped
from q load OF corn on which lie was seated,
falling between the wheels OF the wagon, one
wheel passing over his left limb ABOVE the
ankle, badly .racturing 1t. DR.. w. I. Speaker
Get the II jured limb, ana the young man was
taken home by friends.
Pensions for Iowsps: Ella NJ, widow OF
william T. Vir.in, Burlington. Mexican
war: Abigail c., widow OF Ferrand Water
man, Vinton. Increase: Alfred Far,ow,
| woodbine; {. g. Keys, Cedar Rapids; John
White, Bentonsport; A. j. Hamilton, Fonda:
l.. l.. Hotchkiss, Milton; ID. X. Edmund', lie.
Mars; William J. Magee, Dihlonega; William
Bartlett, Waterloo; G. r. Mitchell, Osks-
loosa. Reissue: John Sukey, Canton.
Elizabeth Watterson, daughter OF a farmet
living near Oxford Junction. attempted TO
commit suicide by shooting herself through
the right lung with a 32-calibre rife. Two
! young men named Ben Cusley and Charles A.
Logan have been paying her attention, sne
rather fsvoiing Logan. One morning they
met at her home. After having some words,
Logan was pat to flight by q revolver In the
hands OF Cusley. The girl Is about seventeen
years old and the shooting occurred at 2 D. m.
A eeecial agent OF the national bureau Of
labor statistics has been In Waterloo for sew.
eral days past investigating the number OF d.
vorces granted by the courts in The county
during the last twenty years. He has visited
thirty -four OF the principal counties Of lows,
and finds that there have been 1854 divorces
granted In those counties during twenty
years. Polk county heads the list with 7l2,
while Osceola county shows the least number,
only fourteen. willful desertion was the
canse alleged In a large majority OF the cases,
while adultery cam next with inhuman treat
ment aud drunkenness next In order. Ia
about 90 per cent OF the cases divorces were
granted to the women, and the nativity Of a
large majority was American. The average
duration Of their married lie was about four
years. These statistics are being taken by j.
T. Sherman and l.. c. Hendershott for lowe,
but they expect to quit work the first OF the
month on &C .ouut Of failure of the appropria'
ton. MI. 5herman's figures, from which tie
above was quoted, cover one-third OF the
state.
William Mundfrom appeared before the die
trict court at Waterloo Saturday in answer to
the charge Of numbering his uncle, Christian
Hemme. His attorney entered the plea OF
murder In the second degree, which was &C
cepted by the state, q doubt arising as to
whether the prosecution had a legal right 70
accept such plea when the indictment read
for murder In the first degree. The court
caused a jury to be impaneled from the regu
1r panel and the form of hearing was gone
through with. Mrs. Hemme was first placed
ON the stand, and testified that she WAS awak.
ened about 2 q. IA. the night OF the murder by
the noise caused by Mundfrom in straugltng
Henme and In carrying him TO the we'll, but
made no outcry through fear that she too
| would be murdered. Munnfrom endesvored
90 duplicate Mrs. II.mme by stating that che
planned the affair and assisted in carrying the
body to the well. II Is expected that Mund
from will receive the extreme punishment al
lowed by law, imprisonment for life. A mo
ton for continuance IL the case OF Mrs.
Hernme was died.
The folio Wing are the issues o. Iowa pen
sions of November 10: Margaret, widow OF
Tnomas Frazler, Union; Edward NJ. McCon
uell, DIS Moines; Jesse g.. Keith, Audubon.
O,iginal-William G.. Morgan, East Des
Moines; Herman Bachrodt, Des Moinse; Jas
per Hagan., Mt. Ayr; Diniel T.. Wilson, Lis
CONT. Increase-James Hood, Creston John
w. Cox, Hastings; James Yoders, Winterset
William Byrn, Woodside; Ruben A. Riley,
Washington; Francis A. Bouglmer, OF
tumwa; Joseph Allbee, Humboldt; Arge
Washington, Keohuk; William Poppam,
LehIgh. Re-issue-.rhos. ". Williamson, Burt.
louisa, wife Of Joseph AZ. Anderson, Web.